Tuesday December 13th, 2005 Meeting - Austin Java Users Group

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This month's event with free pizza and beer is sponsored by Sun Microsystems(http://www.sun.com/)

Java Technology Community Development: Peabody and Glassfish at java.net
by Sridhar Reddy, Technology Evangelist with Sun's Advanced Engineering Group

Project Peabody is an initiative to provide a more collaborative development environment for future generations of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE).

Project Glassfish aims to drive innovation in the J2EE/application server space, to improve developer access to J2EE sources and increase transparency in J2EE development. It is the response to Java developers who want access to the source code and want to contribute to the development of Sun.s next generation application server.

Extending the NetBeans IDE
by Dave Havrda, Sun Microsystems

The NetBeans IDE is built on a modular framework called the NetBeans Platform. This framework makes it easy to extend the IDE (or even write non-IDE applications) with new functionality. In the upcoming version 5.0 of the IDE significant new features have been added to make creating these extensions easier. Wizards are provided that create the necessary classes and metadata files, etc. This presentation includes a demo of some of those new 5.0 features and then shows a "real world" example that is currently under development.

Sridhar has been with Sun for over 12 years in various roles of application development and now as a Java Technology Evangelist. His core competencies include: Java SE, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0, Web Services, JavaServer Faces, and other Java EE technologies using the NetBeans. IDE and Sun Java Studio Creator. tools. He is a Java Certified programmer and has over 9 years of experience in Java, over 17 years of programming experience. He speaks and conducts developer workshops at technical conferences around the world including Sun TechDays and JavaOne. Sridhar loves to travel and meet the Java developers all over the world and share his experience and knowledge. Sridhar holds an MS in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Hyderabad, India.

Dave is a software developer in the Identity Management group at Sun. He has been using Java since 2000 and in his previous position at Motive he developed plugins for a different IDE. His current project involves the moving of standalone tools to the NetBeans IDE.

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